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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is remarkable about Hornblower and the battle?
(a) He escapes uninjured.
(b) He could not see because of an eye injury yet still conducted the battle as commander.
(c) He is able to kill or wound 10 of the French crew himself alone.
(d) His ship is virtually uninjured.

2. What does Hornblower see that motivates him to form an escape plan?
(a) Two English spies following the coach.
(b) An English ship off the coast.
(c) A rowboat.
(d) Nothing.

3. In what way does Hornblower answer the Count?
(a) Evasively.
(b) Defensively.
(c) The Count does not question Hornblower that evening.
(d) Honestly.

4. What is the surname of the host?
(a) de Bourbon.
(b) de Compte.
(c) de Guerria.
(d) de Ladon.

5. Who hopes to face death with "colours flying"?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Bush.
(c) Brown.
(d) Hornblower's crew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are they taken there?

2. What is disgraceful about the French behavior after the English strike their colors?

3. Where are Hornblower and the other two taken?

4. How many French ships do the English manage to destroy?

5. At what does Hornblower marvel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hornblower say is the reason Bush should not be executed and what is Caillard's response? What does the response say to you about his character?

2. What does Hornblower do after the men are dried and clothed and Bush is put to bed? What does the Count tell Hornblower?

3. What does Hornblower think about when told Admiral Leighton might die? Do you think his thoughts make him less that honorable?

4. What do you think of the fact that of all the houses the men could have gone they happen to find one with occupants sympathetic to them?

5. What happens that slows down the travel?

6. What happens that stops the escapees' trip down the river?

7. How did Hornblower end up where he is at the beginning of the novel?

8. How does the Spanish surgeon feel about Bush being transported and what does he do to mitigate the possible repercussions to Bush? What does this say about the surgeon's character?

9. Who is the owner of the house where the escapees knock to ask for aid? How does he treat the prisoners initially?

10. In what shape is Bush at the beginning of Chapter 5? What does the doctor tell Caillard? What does Hornblower say?

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